Posted on November 30th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
The Turner Report into the future of pensions has now been published – the main recommendations, as expected, are that the pensionable age should gradually increase over the next 45 years (though to 68, not 67 as reported in the press), the state pension should be residence based and linked to increases in average [...]
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Filed under: Pensions, YouGov
Posted on November 25th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
I haven’t paid much attention to the voting intention polls over recent months since without a Leader of the Opposition party politics are in a bit of a limbo. When people say how they would vote in a general election tomorrow, are they imagining a an election with Michael Howard as the alternate Prime Minister, [...]
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Filed under: Conservatives, Voting Intention, YouGov
Posted on November 22nd, 2005 by Anthony Wells
Prior to the July 7th bombings support for ID cards had appeared to be in serious decline. Back in 2003 YouGov had found a net approval rating of +63 for the introduction of ID cards, with support of 78%. By the week prior to the London bombing net approval had fallen to only +3, with [...]
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Filed under: ICM, ID cards
Posted on November 22nd, 2005 by Anthony Wells
The report of the Turner commission is expected to recommend that the state pensionable age be increased to 67 to pay for a higher state pension. This meets with very lukewarm support from the public in a new ICM poll in Tuesday’s Guardian – only 36% support increasing the pensionable age, with 59% saying they [...]
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Filed under: ICM, Pensions
Posted on November 21st, 2005 by Anthony Wells
Following the tragic murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky at the weekend, the media has been in flurry over whether policemen should be routinely armed (despite the fact that practically no one seems to be calling for this) and, following a newspaper article by Lord Stevens, whether the death penalty should be re-introduced for the murder [...]
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Filed under: Crime
Posted on November 16th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
The start of what was the hunting season was greeted by a new opinion poll from ORB, commissed by the Countryside Alliance, which they claimed showed that support for a ban had dramatically fallen over the last 6 years, and now had only minority support. It was immediately rebutted by the League Against Cruel Sports [...]
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Filed under: Field Sports
